netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] bnxt_en: Support combined and rx/tx channels.

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20160104.155531.474952993170321598.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 04 Jan 2016 15:55:31 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mchan@...adcom.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] bnxt_en: Support combined and rx/tx
 channels.

From: Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 23:44:57 -0500

> The bnxt hardware uses a completion ring for rx and tx events.  The driver
> has to process the completion ring entries sequentially for the events.
> The current code only supports an rx/tx ring pair for each completion ring.
> This patch series add support for using a dedicated completion ring for
> rx only or tx only as an option configuarble using ethtool -L.
> 
> The benefits for using dedicated completion rings are:
> 
> 1. A burst of rx packets can cause delay in processing tx events if the
> completion ring is shared.  If tx queue is stopped by BQL, this can cause
> delay in re-starting the tx queue.
> 
> 2. A completion ring is sized according to the rx and tx ring size rounded
> up to the nearest power of 2.  When the completion ring is shared, it is
> sized by adding the rx and tx ring sizes and then rounded to the next power
> of 2, often with a lot of wasted space.
> 
> 3. Using dedicated completion ring, we can adjust the tx and rx coalescing
> parameters independently for rx and tx.

Series applied, thanks Michael.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html